Fikri Kaba

Fikri Kaba (14 July 1964-14 June 2006) was an al-Qaeda leader from Syria.

Biography
Fikri Kaba was born on 14 June 1964 in A'zaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria to a family of Sunni Muslim Turkmen, and he was educated on Islam at school. Kaba disagreed with Arab nationalism, as he was a non-Arab, and he decided to fight against the secular government of Afghanistan by joining the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War. Kaba fought against the Soviet Army there, and he met several jihadists, including Abdullah Azzam and Osama bin Laden. Kaba was tasked with setting up al-Qaeda in western Asia, and he set up an al-Qaeda base in Syria. Many of his men were arrested by the Syrian Arab Republic for their Islamist views, and Kaba himself was arrested in 2005. He died under torture at Sednaya prison on 14 June 2006.